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Connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet

It would be great if ORD had the capability to connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet to be able to calculate spread and bypass at the inlet. Currently the workaround is to connect the channel to a Generic Outfall at the edge of the inlet...
9 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Export Drainage Model to 2D Linework

It would be nice to be able to export a drainage network into 2D linework that can be edited for plan sheets. Currently, we don't use our modeled files directly in our plan sheets as we cannot adjust the conduit line styles and it takes longer to ...
2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Needs review

Separate SUDA Seed and Feature Def DGNLIB

In the current software version it is necessary to have hydraulic prototypes, catalogs, ect. in the same dgnlib as any SUDA/SUE feature definitions. This is due to how prototypes and such are managed within the software. In the workspace/workset c...
11 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Enhancing Drainage Annotation Flexibility: Options for Maintaining Relative or Fixed Locations in Plan and Profile Views

Currently, drainage annotation will snap back to the placement location based on the placement settings within annotation groups. When I move the annotation I'd want to have the option of maintaining the location in relation to the object or maint...
about 1 month ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Flex Table - option to be placed plan.

There are times we create a flex table so we can add as table on our plans. Currently several steps to make it happen. (export to csv, then import the table using excel/csv) There should be a direct option/button to add/place from the flex table t...
about 2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 2 Needs review

Drainage Annotation rotation based on sheet view rotation

Currently, the only rotation options for drainage annotation is constant. With alignments that are curving, our sheets must change rotation. It would save a lot of time spent manually adjusting rotation on each sheet.
about 1 month ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Needs review

Open API to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies.

It would be extremely helpful, if we were able to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies so that automation of the creation of new 'Custom Drainage Features' every time a drainage structure had a different bottom box (...
almost 2 years ago in All Other / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Civil view Settings (Drainage and utilities) in Personal Preference

Have the Civil preference for drainage and utilities as file setting rather than personal preference. There are times we had to change the settings depends on what we are designing. eg. we want to show connecting conduit if we do drainage, not whe...
2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Needs review

Parametric capability for the placement of Node and Conduit feature definitions

This would dramatically reduce the requirement for a vast number of library cells and feature definitions to be created
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Ability to Place a Conduit/Pipe "Without" a Node

Many times, we have conduits/pipes that simply daylight a surface and drain on to the ground or into a pond. Please add the ability to place conduit/pipes "Without" the need of a Node. I understand that we can create a sort of null point/node that...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review